How Hans Niemann BROKE Chess

I just realized I didn’t say “Itesodadae”

Have no idea why YT recommended this to me but it was great.

That Botez clip really illustrates what the mindset was around this situation. He’s either the best or he cheated. And he can’t be the best bc Magnus is the best and he clearly cheated bc how could Magnus make a mistake. Like idk how this entire community just immediately snapped on this dude because their top player lost.

Hans interview at Sinqfield didnt do him any favours. He said he cheated online only in unrated games so he could get his rating up to play stronger players. Wtf. He also lied about the number of times he cheated which turned out to be a lot more than he admitted too. When you have a track record of cheating and lying its not surprising that a lot of people wont trust you again.

I didnt know Dream played chess.

I don't think Hans cheated over the board. But once he cheated online he loses credibility and respect

I like the part where Hans Niemann says “It’s Esaming Time”

I love how you’re branching out into covering other topics instead of just the smash and commentary community! Great video man🧡

"Chess speaks for itself" -famous last words

I like that you don’t fear to go after big YouTubers just to say the right thing. Great video

Your final statement is exactly how I felt watching this all go down in real time. How frustrating it must be to beat the best player in the world after spending countless hours improving yourself just to have him throw a childish temper tantrum and accuse you of cheating and bring the entire chess community down on you. Excellent video by the way, I have my degree in physics and did quite a bit of data science work in my undergrad years, and all the statistics proving Hans was cheating all felt really off to me, but I had no desire to break down why and you did an excellent job precisely describing why they were wrong even if you aren't a data scientist.

Great video! This is the first video I saw of yours and I was completely hooked! It was so damn interesting and considering this was a 1 hr video, I think it's quite an achievement to keep people hooked even for long format content (especially when reels are so popular and many people are losing their attention span), great work 💯

Best and most fair analysis Ive seen of the situation thus far. Thank you for sharing

YOOOO, I didnt think I would be featured as a member (I forgot I was a member lmao) Good vid bro, keep up the amazing work, and I pray that your editing software stops messing up all the time, I really hate to see it

So, the future of integrity in chess may be fucked because the #1 guy has such an ego that he can't just say he got outplayed? Seems about right.

Shunned by the system? Check. Ego bigger than anyone else? Check. Defeating big players like they're nothing? Check. BREAKING A MAN'S EGO? CHECK! Forget Hikaru, Caruana and So. You know who I'm talking about, and Hans is his true successor.

Perfect video. I followed this closely and was shocked how everyone jumped the gun and believed everything everywhere. Ty!

I want to add on, the rapid elo climbing phenomenon during the pandemic applied to many up and coming players, not just Niemann. It has been a common complaint from top players about losing elo from people who were underrated due to the pandemic.

Nice job. I really loved the detail at 16:55 when you synced up the "transposition" with the video interview. Excellent effort and detailed work. Very appreciated. Well done.

This was an amazing produced video. Not into chess that much but watched it from start to finish